The great jazz artist Peggy Lee performed the following beautiful, highly disturbing yet haunting song in 1969, at midlife, in her 50th year: I doubt that questions get much more real than those in this song. And the question that Peggy Lee sings about here is of…
In recent years, there have been certain strong and notable trends emerging in the field of case studies. Some have been very valuable, but some, unfortunately, have not been for the better. In many cases what's on offer doesn't seem to be anything that really…
In this post, I would like to write about something that may have a sense of “taboo” about it. For many of us in the present day world, a powerful struggle goes on in our middle years. There are greater and greater demands on our personal…
In recent years, a great deal of emphasis has been placed on what are called “brief psychotherapies” by the therapeutic profession. The emphasis has been on providing very short courses of case studies to individuals, with an eye to providing concrete definable “results” with respect to…
This week I spoke with a very large number of people who are confronting serious issues around setting boundaries at work. I don’t mean facing boundaries issues like sexual harassment, or things like that — although that’s common enough, unfortunately. I mean situations where people…
Can I get a witness? Some of you will recognize this phrase from R and B music; some of you may recognize it as a phrase used in the black church. But it's a phrase that has an awful lot to do with case studies.
Out here in suburbia, great pressure is often placed on people to “look good”. People feel all kinds of pressure to keep their image in the finest order. We get the message that it’s important to keep your grass well-cut and your garden well-manicured.…
There are some people who might look a bit oddly at you if you tell them you pay close attention to your dreams. To some people, in fact, it seems like an incredibly “flaky” thing to do. Often, these people subscribe to the “daily regurgitation” theory…
Often people get to the point in life where they reach an impasse, and they don’t know how to solve a particular situation in their lives. There doesn’t seem to be a way forward and there doesn’t seem to be a solution. Although this can happen at any point in…
